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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. NCache vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.16
Rank	#333	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.98
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#329	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Alachisoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

STS Soft SC

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2016

2005

2009

2011

1999

Current release

2.1, December 2018

5.3.3, April 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

yes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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